Season 1 Episode 4 - Šari Dale and Ashleigh Giffen's BC Bitches
On this episode of Inspired Word Café, we sit down with Šari Dale and Ashleigh Giffen and listen to them read from their upcoming chapbook BC Bitches. Then, we talk with Inspired Word Café Collective Members Cole Mash and Maddie Bishop about what words have been inspiring us
Content Warning: This podcast contains themes of underage substance use. Listen discretion is advised
Find Šari Dale on Instagram: @sari.docx
Find Ashleigh Giffen on Instagram: @galaxiiee_
Find more IWC at www.inspiredwordcafe.com
We recognize that this podcast is made on the unceded traditional territory of the syilx Okanagan nation. For more information about the Okanagan Nation Alliance at www.syilx.org
This podcast is funded in part by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the City of Kelowna.
Special Episode 3 - November 2020 Open Mic
On this LIVE episode of Inspired Word Café, we take a listen to our highlights and favourite moments from the November 2020 Open Mic event, originally at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art on November 5th 2020.
Find more IWC at www.inspiredwordcafe.com
We recognize that this podcast is made on the unceded traditional territory of the syilx Okanagan nation. For more information about the Okanagan Nation Alliance at www.syilx.org
This podcast is funded in part by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the City of Kelowna.
Season 1 Episode 3 - Bronwyn Berg's Get Well Soon (And Best Wishes)
On this episode of Inspired Word Café, we sit down with Bronwyn Berg and listen to a segment of her reading her short story Get Well Soon (And Best Wishes). Then, we talk with Inspired Word Café Collective Members Cole Mash and Matthew Rader about a document that’s inspiring us: Carmen Papalia’s Open Access Tenets.
Content Warning: This podcast contains themes of death of a parent during childhood and terminal illness. Listen discretion is advised
Preorder the March Issue of Room Magazine at www.roommagazine.com
Find more IWC at www.inspiredwordcafe.com
Find Carmen Papalia’s work at https://carmenpapalia.com
We recognize that this podcast is made on the unceded traditional territory of the syilx Okanagan nation. For more information about the Okanagan Nation Alliance at www.syilx.org
This podcast is funded in part by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the City of Kelowna.
Special Episode 2 - October 2020 October Open Mic
On this LIVE episode of Inspired Word Café, we take a listen to our highlights and favourite moments from the October 2020 Open Mic event, originally at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art on October 8th 2020.
Find more IWC at www.inspiredwordcafe.com
We recognize that this podcast is made on the unceded traditional territory of the syilx Okanagan nation. For more information about the Okanagan Nation Alliance at www.syilx.org
This podcast is funded in part by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the City of Kelowna.
Season 1 Episode 2 - Michael V. Smith's Bad Ideas
On this episode of Inspired Word Café, we sit down with Michael V. Smith, hear a few poems from his collection Bad Ideas, and talk about the magic of poetry. Then, we talk with Inspired Word Café Collective Member (and Board President!) Rikki Bassett about what we’ve been reading this month that’s inspiring us.
Content Warning: Please note that this episode contains references to violence, death, and childhood sexual abuse.
Find Michael at www.michaelvsmith.com
See Michael’s show Have I Told You the One About? at www.youtube.com/michaelvsmith71
We recognize that this podcast is made on the unceded traditional territory of the syilx Okanagan nation. For more information about the Okanagan Nation Alliance at www.syilx.org
This podcast is funded in part by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the City of Kelowna.
Special Episode 1 - The 2020 Kickoff Classic
On our first Special LIVE episode of Inspired Word Café, we take a listen to our highlights and favourite moments from the 2020 Kickoff Classic Slam event, originally at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art on September 17th 2020.
Find more IWC at www.inspiredwordcafe.com
We recognize that this podcast is made on the unceded traditional territory of the syilx Okanagan nation. For more information about the Okanagan Nation Alliance at www.syilx.org
This podcast is funded in part by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the City of Kelowna.
Season 1 Episode 1 - Erin Scott's Atrophy
On our first episode of Inspired Word Café, Shimshon Obadia & Em MacMillen sit down and hear Erin Scott read from her new chapbook Atrophy , as well as talk about her process about writing it. Then, they chat with Inspired Word Café Collective Members Mackenzie (Ken) Shaw and Henry Greyson about what’s inspiring them this month.
Buy Atrophy at www.kalamalkapress.ca
Find Erin at www.erinhscott.com, on Instagram, or on Facebook
Find Ken at www.kendontcry.bigcartel.com, or on Instagram
We recognize that this podcast is made on the unceded traditional territory of the syilx Okanagan nation. For more information about the Okanagan Nation Alliance at www.syilx.org
This podcast is funded in part by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the City of Kelowna.
Trailer - Welcome to Inspired Word Café
Hosted by Shimshon Obadia & Em MacMillen, this is a podcast that brings all the excitement of the written, and spoken words of Inspired Word Café home to your headphones! Whether you’ve been to one of our reading events, poetry slams, or workshops before — or even if this is your first time hearing about Inspired Word Café — we’ve got a little something to scratch your writerly-readerly-literary itches! Every month, we’ll be bringing you a well caffeinated dose of poetry, prose, and all the fresh brewed goodness of the written word. Here, we’ll be shining our coffee house spotlight on local writers from in and around the Okanagan Valley. Plus, stay tuned for our special episodes of Inspired Word Café LIVE events which we’ll be dropping while they're hot!
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